The Soviet censorship by Martin Dewhirst(
Book
)4
editions published
in
1973
in
English
and held by
620 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This book contains the proceedings of a symposium which are intended to be a general survey on the nature of Soviet censorship,
its effect on literature in the ussr, and the role of such censorship in the intellectual life of a large part of the world.
Contents include: "What Is the Soviet Censorship?" Which is an attempt to define the way in which censorship is viewed in
the ussr and how it works in practice; "Self-Censorship," which discusses the personal problems writers face under the Soviet
system of censorship; "The System of Formal Censorship"; "The Unofficial Censorship"; "Censorship of Music"; "Censorship in
the Soviet Cinema"; "Censorship and Science"; "Evading the Censor"; and "The Participants," which lists the members of the
symposium. Appended are an extensive selective bibliography of works on censorship, an index of personal names, and a list
of Soviet newspapers and periodicals mentioned in the text. (Rb)